This is the Kadri Daily Podcast for Tuesday, June 2, 2020. I'm

Keila Brown. The Supreme Court this week again did not announce that they'll be

taking cases involving qualified immunity, the doctrine

invented by the court that regularly protects police from the legal consequences of violating

Americans' rights.

Cato's J. Schweikert and Clark Neely detail what comes next?

The Supreme Court has for months now kicked the can down the road, as you put it, Jay, and you feel like

you're in sort of a Groundhog Day situation

where the Supreme Court pledges to look at qualified immunity cases and make a decision about whether or not they're going to take

one. Let's bring everybody up to speed about the cases that they did examine and decided not to hear.

Sure.

Well, there were eight qualified immunity cases

that were considered at the conference on Thursday, May 28th.

And this includes what, or in my view, the three most significant cases,

which are the ones that are explicitly asking the court to reconsider qualified immunity entirely.

And as far as we know, those cases did go to conference.

The court did discuss them there.

But when the orders from that conference came out on Monday, June 1st, there were no decisions in any of those cases either way.

And then later in that day, we saw that all of those qualified immunity cases got rescheduled for consideration at the conference on Thursday, June 4th.

So once again, we are seeing a continued delay and kicking the can down the road on these

major qualified immunity cases that are raising this fundamental question of whether the

doctrine itself needs to be reconsidered.

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